Due to the fact that enough of you wanted to see Draco's Point of View on the last chapter, he it is. I have no idea why I'm actually updating now considering the test and the midterm yesterday have left me brain dead, but apparently my good sense tends to leave me after three days in a row of less than four hours of sleep. Hopefully this chapter isn't as incoherent as most of my thoughts at the moment.
Oh! Another word of warning: a lot of this was inspired on actual 'boy talk'. I don't mean to be stereotypical, but I've witnessed conversations of a similar nature and thought it would be amusing. Anyway, enjoy!
"Can you not feel it, Malfoy?" exclaimed a somewhat unnaturally excited Blaise Zabini, barely bothering to keep this voice low despite the fact that they were in Potions class.
"Feel what?" mumbled the blond Slytherin, his mind barely on the conversation at hand as he stroked yet another tally mark on his notebook. 19 -20 -21. 'Damn those guys are insistent!' he thought to himself, staring at the increasingly larger number of notes that were beginning to pile up on the mudblood's desk. 'At least my friends fear me too much to pester me that way' he added, only to look at the still rambling Zabini. 'Well, most of them, anyway'.
"Feel what, you ask" continued Blaise, not in the least bothered by Malfoy's distracted state. "Love! Or at least lust! Last year at Hogwarts Malfoy and we are among the most eligible bachelors out there!".
"I think you are delusional" he retorted, watching another note being passed towards Hermione -22. "Granted, we could get a few good lays this year, but nothing more exciting that last year, which wasn't all that amazing either. Get your head out of the clouds Zabini. It's still Hogwarts with the same group of ninnies as last year". Deflated, Zabini slumped in his chair only to notice his friend mark another point on his notebook. 'Twenty-three what?' He looked around the room only to see the large stack of notes Granger was attempting to hide under her notebook. 'Interesting...'
"What about Granger, Malfoy?" he added, smirking. "They say it's the quiet ones you have to watch out for. I think she'd be quite wild in bed, don't you think?" He wiggled his eyebrows suggestively only to be shot down by a death stare from the Prince of Slytherin.
"That has got to be among the most repulsive ideas you've ever suggested" he snarled, feeling his stomach churn at the thought of anyone with the mudblood. Sure, she wasn't all that bad looking, but that didn't mean he'd want to share anything beyond a handshake with her. Merlin knew, even those had become all to complicated for him to have to deal with.
"Just a suggestion, mate, no need to get so ruffled" defended Blaise, holding up his hands in resignation. "I would screw her in a second, so all the better if you're not interested. Though you might want to stop staring in her direction. It tends to be misinterpreted as interest by most people's standards". Smiling in triumph at his statement, Zabini returned his attention to the class.
'Was I actually starting at her?' wondered Draco, only to shrug the idea of as quickly as it came. 'If I was, it was simply because I wanted to see how much trouble her precious friends were making for her'. Concluding this was the case, he decided to stick around after class to watch what was sure to be one of the golden trio's most energetic fights ever. 'And all because of me' he thought, satisfied. There were few feelings as rewarding as knowing he'd made a bunch of losers get riled up at each other.
Soon enough, class was dismissed and he motioned for Zabini to follow him into the potion's storage area, a small room towards the back of the dungeon still within vague hearing range of the occurrences in the classroom. It took a few moments to reach the area closest to where the trio stood and, after a quick eavesdropping amplification spell, they waited and listened at the battle that was already under way.
"Is that would you'd have me do, Harry!" Snapped the female voice he immediately recognized as Granger's. She sounded cold enough to make any Slytherin proud. "Put at risks years of work and studying to achieve this position just because my pride won't let me potentially patch things up with someone else? Let my own arrogance stand in the way of my better judgement? Because I'm not lowering myself to his level any more than he is sinking to mine. We are simply being civil. Polite. Not enemies. Might actually make my life this year easier, for that matter, not to have to tolerate Malfoy's bickering"
"Distinctly not what you were going for, was it?" whispered Zabini, noting the frown on Malfoy's face.
"Yea well, she might not have to deal with fighting with me, but that doesn't mean I can't make the lives of Potter and Weasley hell" he retorted, only to be shushed by the defeated and disappointed voice of the Golden boy.
"He's still a death eater, Hermione" he said simply, making Draco twitch in anger. Zabini, perhaps the only Slytherin who knew how he truly felt, granted him a reassuring pat on the back. "You're good intentions can't change that. He is and will always be the enemy, no matter how many times you choose to deny it and coat it in pink. Because in the end, when we have to fight Voldemort, there will be no place for civility when you're wands are pointed at each other. Think about that and tell me you're not lowering yourself." With that, they heard the footsteps signaling the end of the bout.
"Not exactly the effect I'd wanted, but still, I can't complain if it made them fight on my behalf" concluded Malfoy, pleased with himself, though somewhat angered at what seemed to be everyone's usual assumption concerning his dark affiliations.
"Shhhh!" motioned Zabini. "I think she's still there". They both pressed their ears against the area where they had laid down the eavesdropping spell, trying to understand what seemed to be mumbling on the other side. Eventually, he was able to make sense of a single phrase that shocked him like no other.
"He is not and will never be a death eater"
Author's note:
Send in your ideas, suggestions, and recommendations! I love hearing from ya guys! Oh! And I'm gonna try to incorporate some more journal entries since some of you really seemed to like them! Take care! D
